Fair play

Definition

fair 1 / feǝ(r) / adj ၁။ (က) ~ ( to sb ) တရားမွ်တေသာ။ ဘက္မလိုက္ေသာ။ the fairest solution ❍ be scrupulously fair ❍ promise a fairer distribution of wealth ❍ We have to be fair to both players. ❍ She deserves a fair trial. (ခ) ~ ( to/on sb ) မွ်တေသာ။ တရားေသာ။ သင့္ေလ်ာ္ေသာ။ a fair deal/share/wage/price ❍ The punishment was quite fair. ❍ Was it fair to her friends to take her children with her? ❍ It's not fair to give him the prize/not fair that he should be given the prize. ❍ It seems only fair to add that… ❍ She shouldn't keep changing the timetable—it's not fair on the students. ❍ ‘How often do you actually see such cases in practice?’ ‘That's a fair question, and it deserves an answer. ’ ၂။ (က) အေတာ္အတန္။ အတန္အသင့္။ သင့္ေသာ။ There's a fair chance that we might win this time. ❍ His knowledge of French is only fair. (ခ) ( infml ) အတန္အသင့္။ A fair number of people come along. ❍ a fair -sized town ❍ We've still got a fair bit (ie quite a lot) to do. ၃။ (အသား) လတ္ေသာ၊ ျဖဴေသာ။ a fair complexion ❍ All her children are fair. ၄။ (က) (ရာသီဥတု) ေကာင္းေသာ။ ေျခာက္ေသြ႕ သာယာေသာ။ သာယာေသာ။ a fair and breezy day ❍ The weather looks set fair for the weekend. (ခ) (ေလ) သင့္ေသာ။ They set sail with the first fair wind. ၅။ ( arch or rhet ) လွပေသာ။ a fair maiden ❍ This fair city. adv စည္းကမ္းအတိုင္း။ တရားသျဖင့္။ Come on, you two, fight fair! ❍ They'll respect you as long as you play fair (with them). ❏ by fair means or foul [ IDM ] ဘယ္နည္းနဲ႔ရရ။ She's determined to win, by fair means or foul. ❏ fair and square [ IDM ] ၁။ တည့္တည့္မတ္မတ္။ I hit it fair and square. ၂။ မလြဲမေသြ။ မုခ်။ ဧကန္။ The blame rests fair and square on my shoulders. ❏ a fair crack of the whip [ IDM ] ( infml ) သင့္တင့္ မွ်တသည့္အခြင့္အလမ္း။ I felt we weren't getting fair crack of the whip. ❏ fair dos/do's [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) (used esp as an interj ) မွ်မွ်တတေပါ့ကြာ…။ Come on, fair dos—you've had a long ride, now it's my turn. ❏ fair enough [ IDM ] ( infml ) (used esp as an interj , sometimes to show unwilling agreement) ဟုတ္ပါလိမ့္မယ္။ ❏ fair game n [U] ေျပာင္စရာ ေနာက္စရာ စသည္။ The younger teachers were fair game for playing tricks on. ❏ fair-haired adj ေရႊေရာင္ဆံပင္ႏွင့္။ ❏ (give sb/get) a fair hearing [ IDM ] မွ်မွ်တတ သံုးသပ္ ဆင္ျခင္ျခင္း။ ❏ fair-minded adj မွ်မွ်တတ ဆံုးျဖတ္တတ္ေသာ။ တရား သျဖင့္ ဆံုးျဖတ္တတ္ေသာ။ သမစိတၱရိွေသာ။ ❏ fairness n [U] တရားမွ်တျခင္း။ the need for fairness and balance in the new law ❍ In (all) fairness, it must be said that he's done a splendid job. ❏ fair play n [U] တရားမွ်တမႈ။ စည္းကမ္းလိုက္နာမႈ။ တရားသျဖင့္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ျခင္း။ တရားသျဖင့္ ကစားေသာပြဲ။ ensure fair play in take-over bids. ❍ As the referee, I was determined to see fair play. ❏ the fair sex (also the fairer sex ) n [Gp] ( dated or joc ) အားႏြဲ႕သူမိန္းမသား။ ❏ fair's fair [ IDM ] ( infml ) မွ်မွ်တတေပါ့ကြာ။ ‘Come on, Sarah. Give me some more—fair's fair!’ ❏ fair-weather friend n မိမိဒုကၡႏွင့္ႀကံဳေသာ္ မိမိကို ေရွာင္ခြာစြန္႔ပစ္ေသာ မိတ္ေဆြ။ မိတ္ေဆြတု၊ မိတ္ေဆြေယာင္။ သာေပါင္းညာစား။ ❏ have, etc (more than) one's fair share of sth [ IDM ] သင့္သည္ထက္ ပိုရသည္၊ ေတြ႕သည္ ။ He's had (more than) his fair share of problems. ❏ set fair (to do sth/for sth) [ IDM ] ေသခ်ာပံု ရသည္။ She seems set fair to win the championship. fair 2 / feǝ(r)/ n ၁။ ေလဟာျပင္ကြင္းက်ယ္ႀကီး၌ အတီးအမႈတ္၊ အဆို အက ပြဲလမ္းသဘင္မ်ား၊ စားေသာက္ဆိုင္ စသည္မ်ား ခင္းက်င္းၿပီး ဖြင့္လွစ္ေလ့ရိွေသာ ေပ်ာ္ပြဲရႊင္ပြဲ။ ပြဲေဈး။ take the children to the fair ❍ all the fun of the fair. ၂။ ကြၽဲႏြား တိရစၧာန္၊ လယ္ယာထြက္ ပစၥည္းမ်ား ျပသေရာင္းခ်ေသာပြဲ။ the Appleby Horse Fair ❍ a county fair. ၃။ ကုန္စည္ျပပြဲ။ a world trade fair ❍ a craft fair. ❍ Exhibition

Examples

1. Life is not always fair.
2. Everyone has a right to a fair trial.
3. Free and fair elections
4. [it is not fair to someone] : It wouldn’t be fair to the others if she is paid more.
5. Teachers have to be scrupulously fair in marking examination papers.
6. [a fair wage/deal/price] : We aim to provide healthy food at fair prices.
7. [it is (not) fair to do something] : It is not fair to attack his personal life in this way.
8. We walked 3 miles to school
9. which is a fair distance.
10. [have a fair idea of something] : I had a fair idea of what he was going to say next.
11. His knowledge of Russian is very good though his Japanese is only fair.